Enable “Print Services for Unix” on Windows XP machine and share printer. (I’m not actually sure that this is necessary, it might be a red herring…)
When you add the printer in Ubuntu,
- Choose “Network Printer” and “Windows Printer (SMB)”
- put your Workgroup in the Host field
- Put “guest@<host>/<printer>” in the Printer field (replacing <host> and <printer> with your host & printer names)
So, for example, if your Windows machine was called “Dozer” and your printer was called “LaserPrinter”, you would put “guest@Dozer/LaserPrinter”.
You should not need a name and password for the Windows machine for this to work.
Note: please note that case-sensitivity is important.. e.g. If you think your machine name is “DOMINO”, it should be “Domino” in the config above.
Tags: cross-platform, Linux, printing, Ubuntu, WinXP
If it helps anybody, i used the ip address of my computer for the
I was having a lot of problems with the verification. The guest account fixed that for me. Thanks!
whoops… i meant to say i used the ip address of my computer for the “host”
[...] The tricky bit was finding the correct driver. The HL-2040 wasn’t listed in the printer selection dialogue, so I did a quick google to find a compatible printer driver. Got all the info I needed in a reply to a post on Rachel’s Knowledge Base [...]
HI there,
I have Hp LasserJet 1007/1008 printer installed on windows xp sp2 on some other machine which is in LAN. And on the other hand side I’m running Ubuntu 10.04 lucid on my PC in LAn too. I want to share printer which is on Windows Xp in LAN. Plz suggest me on this.
Regards
Thanks A LOT, Rachel. Ubuntu 10.10 was able to find my printer, which is a few years old, with ease. Cheers!
Nick’s post (http://nick.onetwenty.org/index.php/2006/01/04/brother_hl_2040_laser_printer_under_ubun/) was pretty helpful as well.
Hello,
i have a kyocera taskalfa180 printer which doesnt seem to be supported in linux. I installed it in xp vmware and am able to print from it. problem comes when adding it to ubuntu…I browse a network printer from system>printing and i see it but i dont know which drivers to select from the database coz my kyocera model is not listed. Any assistance is highly regarded.
br..
peter